Well, this past weekend was the Alamo GT here in San Antonio. I got the privilege of doing the paint judging, with an adorable assistant who made a cameo Sunday morning. Follow the jump for the gorgeous armies that were set up on Sunday morning. If your army isn't here, I apologize; I only took shots of the ones that were set up for viewing on Sunday morning.
First off, Ethan expresses his joy at getting to walk the tables Sunday morning and look at all the pretties. He only tried to eat two models...
Dark Elves from Mike "Colonel" Sanders, from Leadership 2.
Warriors of Chaos
Sean Bright's Ogres.
Justin Balusk's Bretonnians
Ed Phillips and Chuck Gavlak got so drunk during Game 3 that they just left their armies where they lay overnight. Ed finished second in Painting.
Casey Clements's Empire, which won Player's Choice and third Painted. He's missing a large infantry block and two other models for the paint contest.
Julian Lesange's Vampire Counts. This is the army that won First Overall. Look in awe, ye mighty!
Tony Pacheco's Lizardmen. Tony finished Third Overall and picked up 2nd place in Player's Choice. A Stegadon, Cold One Rider, and block of Cold Ones are missing for the paint contest.
Mark Cox's rather blurry Skaven. Ethan grabbed the camera on this one.
A great Roman-themed Ogre Kingdoms army
Gene Kahle's Yellow Bretonnians!
Brandon Roth's all-chariot Nurgle army
Bill Latoria's gloss-varnished Warriors army. Bill: your paint is beautiful, please don't hit it with so much gloss coat! The freehand banners on this one were stunning.
Rick Hoy's all-Lego Warriors of Chaos army. This was the hardest army to paint judge.
High Elves
Chad Pond's Skaven
Mike Grajeda's High Elves
High Elves
Ryan Abt's Wood Elves
Dwarves
John Green's Chaos Dwarves, with a fantastically converted Destroyer
Jack Green's Skaven. Even more impressive considering how young their painter was - the youngest player at the Alamo!
Lance Brown's gorgeous snow-themed Beastmen force.
Jordan Braun's sharks with freaking laser beams on their heads.
James Demaria's Skaven
Zach Clark's Festus list, minus the dragon and Festus.
A showcase of Mike Scalletti's Warriors of Chaos. His army wasn't set up, but he won Best Painted so I took the time to shoot a couple of the highlights of his army. This bad boy is his Hellcannon
More of Mike Scalletti's work, this time a Gorebeast Chariot
Mike Scaletti's Daemon Princess
Even more Scaletti.
Mike, I took five times the pictures of your army than any other! His armies pop better than almost anyone else in the hobby.
Greg Coffman's Tomb Kings
Matthew Kahle's nautical Ogre Kingdoms
Empire
Jennifer Starling's Daemons
Chris Saik's Orcs & Goblins. This army finished third in the Player's Choice voting.
Christon Saik's High Elves
Lance Hatcher's Dwarves
Nick Meyer ran my Lizardmen. I photographed them from the back for modesty's sake.
Trevor Weerts's Tomb Kings
Robert Henderson's Lizardmen. The Bastilidon won Best in Show in the paint contest, and my son tried to eat it.
Brenton Smith's Beastmen
Chris Cole's Skaven, still in disarray after spending Game 3 drinking with Sean Bright
Brett Lamb's Vampire Counts army - with ghost goblins!
Robby Sieman brought four blocks of Dwarf warriors to protect his cannons!
Derek Wiswell's Vampire Counts
Andrew Heinrich's Dwarves
Jeff Suess's High Elves, which finished 2nd Overall
"Q" Bohn's Daemons, from Club Capri
Marcus's Chaos Dwarves, with none of the toys the other Chaos Dwarf players brought
George Loeffler's Ogre Kingdoms after game 3
Josh Fricke's Sphinxes, from Leadership 2
Steve Schifani's Black Orc Brewery army
Thomas Dietzel's Ogre Kingdoms
Greg Harris's Lizardmen
Awesome, Awesome, Awesome! Wish I coulda made there this year. Next time!!
ReplyDeleteWow !!!!!!!! I'm equally inspired to improve my painting or go shot myself.
ReplyDeleteI've missed you the past GT season, Scott! Hope you're doing OK! Lone Wolf will be back in Dallas this March; go register if you can make it! http://www.lonewolfgt.com/
ReplyDeleteNeat Ryan! Next time let me know you want to take pics and I'll set my army up.
ReplyDeleteBTW, I told Bailey to tell you that if I don't show up with a new army to next year's Alamo I'm officially removing myself from the running for any painting awards. Gotta motivate myself to paint somehow.